Do any of my South African compatriots have any good, management-level contacts at Eskom? I'm in dire need of a human contact there to resolve their deep-seated institutional incompetence without resorting to expensive legal process.
[#]southAfrica #eskom
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Fuck it, it's Wine o' clock. All the best words, the bigliest words, muted. Break out the accordion, make sure your seat backs are fastened, your trés tables snowed and your seat belts locked in the uplight position. Place your head firmly between your flotation cushions and brace. Good luck from Nambia.
[#]covfefe
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@tchambers Choosing to moderate threads.net on this instance is, imho, the right choice! Thanks for doing the right thing.
fwiw: I think that in time you'll have to go to a full defed of threads
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The truth is... I never want to upgrade my operating system or any applications. Never. I understand that it's occasionally necessary, but this relentless treadmill that it's become in the name of novelty, in the name of "keeping our brand uppermost in users' minds"... it's all horseshit. How did we get to this awful place?
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Microsoft software is an intelligence test.
If you're using any, you failed.
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"And in the morning
Mother Russia speaks to me
Whispers words of wisdom,
'Covfefe'"
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It's only AI if it comes from the AI region of Silicon Valley. Otherwise it's just sparkling bullshit.
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When you have names and forms,
know that they are provisional.
When you have a subsystem,
know where its functions should end.
Knowing when to stop,
you can avoid any danger.
(paraphrasing DaoDeJing ch32 slightly) #separationOfConcerns #singleResponsibilityPrinciple
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If you cannot move freely and at will beyond the boundaries of a place, that's a confinement — a prison. No matter how large the place, if your movement is confined by its boundaries, it remains a prison. Therefore a [[NationState]] is a prison.
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Further to yesterday's misadventures in Flatpak Land: The very notion of "sandboxing" "apps" in a desktop env seems to me exactly the opposite of the direction we want if we're to foster #PersonalComputing. A sandbox's purpose is to prevent software from interacting/interoperating with other bits of s/w, when what we want is many more much smaller components that interact promiscuously, fluidly and easily. (Yes, I know, bad actors/malware. Don't know how to solve that yet. Capabilities?)
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It's astonishing to me how many people appear completely incapable of detecting bullshit, along with an intersecting group of people who, upon eventually waking up to smell the bullshit are then unable -- utterly incapable -- of loudly and clearly proclaiming, "This is bullshit."
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New Principle to add to my list:
Bullshit detection is one of the most important life-skills you can cultivate. Learn to detect bullshit and then to step well away from it, speedily and early.
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It's only "AI" if it comes from the Silicon Valley region of Northern California. Otherwise it's just sparkling bullshit.
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Renormalise normality.
Hating and meanness are not normal. Kindness and giving are normal.
Winner-takes-all competition is not normal; cooperation and helping is how humanity has thrived. That's what's normal.
Destroying the habitat that keeps you alive is not normal. Taking care of your home planet - that's normal.
Renormalise normality.
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The fear of some AI running amok and exterminating humans is real. It's already happening.
Only the AIs doing it are not what you think they are; it's the Old Slow AIs that are killing us. We call them Oil Companies.
(Actually it's all of the fossil-fuel industrial complex, but "Oil Companies" sounds pithier. And I'm good at taking the pith.)
[#]extinctionRebelion #climateChange
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I will be content
to situate myself in the mountains
and wait
for the flotsam,
the ragged stray edges of it all,
that will find me
even there.
And, as a dutiful poet,
I shall try to tell the world what I see and feel,
knowing all the while
that they do not care,
do not listen,
do not ever learn.
And I intend,
naturally,
to stay drunk.
— Li Po, Chinese Court Poet, ca. 750CE
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